Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
25/04/1997
Date of Amendment
25/04/1997
Name of Property
Stable and Coach-house Range at Bwlchbychan
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Location
Situated some 100m N of Bwlchbychan, backing onto lane from Llanwenog to Waunifor.
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
History
Lofted coach-house and stable range built in 1850 for John Pugh Pryse, younger brother of Sir Pryse Pryse Bt of Gogerddan, for whom Bwlchbychan was built in 1849-51.
Exterior
Rubble stone with cut sandstone dressings. Two-storey long range with hipped slate roof and flat boarded eaves. Ground floor openings have heads with recessed cut-stone voussoirs and raised keystones. From left: three windows to stable, broad arched stable entry, and one similar centre window, then three similar broad arched coach-entries. Windows are cross-windows with small panes. Arches are elliptical and have simple raised impost blocks. Stable arch has incised inscription "J.P.P. Esq 1850". Four loft lights above, one over stable arch, one over centre window, and two, not aligned over coach-house arches. Small-paned casement pairs.
Ledged double doors with strap hinges to coach-entries. Within stable entry are stairs to loft.
Rear has two first floor windows to left, then wall-face chimney. To right is a parallel rear range also with hipped roof. Three loft windows, similar to those on front, left end cambered-headed window
and door, right end lean-to with raised roof.
Reason for designation
Listed as a particularly well-designed coach-house and stable range with fine cut sandstone dressings.
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